Berry professor receives digital media grant

A Berry College communication professor is one of six faculty members in the
U.S. to receive a grant from the Scripps Howard Foundation Visiting Professors
in Social Media Program.

Brian
Carroll, professor and chair in the Department of Communication, will have the
opportunity this summer to learn firsthand how news and information delivery is
being transformed in a digital media world. In phase one of the program, Carroll
will work at WCPO Channel 9
Cincinnati this summer. The second phase of the program brings a WCPO editor to Berry where they will work with students and faculty as well as with Viking
Fusion, the student-run multimedia website.

Carroll
authored “When to Stop the Cheering? The Black Press, the Black Community, and
the Integration of Professional Baseball,” “A Devil's Bargain: The Black
Press and Black Baseball, 1915-1960” and “Writing and Editing for
Digital Media”, now in its third edition. He earned his Ph.D. from the
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill in 2003.

The program is administered
by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication and
funded by the Scripps Howard Foundation.